It’s not often that you get a chance to see the place where your childhood memories were literally built. It’s kind of like peeling back the curtain on your dreams and finding the architects of them busily at work, pulling the strings, painting the scenery, and creating the characters you will vividly remember decades later. That’s what it’s like to visit Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.
Rejoice, because here’s the first musical number from the new Muppets Most Wanted movie coming out in March.
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The work done by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop doesn’t only just show up on Sesame Street and in the latest batch of Muppet movies. Any time you see a convincing looking creature in a commercial that wasn’t brought to life through CG, odds are the Creature Shop had a hand in its creation.
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Forget about Breaking Bad and throw Leonardo DiCaprio and his squinty, squinty eyes in the trash. The arguments over their merits are boring. But this? This is what a Twitter charge for the new Muppet movie to sweep the Golden Globes would have looked like.
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Pogo is a master of the mash-up. We knew it at Snow White
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Thanks to a donation from the Henson Foundation, on Tuesday, Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog, and 19 other Muppets and well-loved characters gained their rightful place in history, entering into the collection of the Smithsonian Museum. As Kermit would say—hi-ho!
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Not everybody’s into chemistry but you have to be a special kind of insane to not have a fondness for the Muppets. This periodic table of Muppetry is a wonderfully organized and colorful take on the history of the form than anyone (with a soul) can appreciate, chem-geek or not.
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In 1979 Jim Henson brought the Muppets to the big screen with the aptly titled film “The Muppet Movie.” On December 5th, the Muppet Movie came to Netflix. Tonight, you should watch it. More »
Here’s one of the perks of being a girl: easier-to-make Halloween costumes. That’s because if you forgot to rent a costume or put one together, all you have to do is put on something skimpy and form-fitting and call yourself the Slutty-something. Something being any occupation, character, or personality here.
Slutty nurses are probably the most common one. But costume makers are leaving no domain untouched because you can now dress up as a slutty character from Sesame Street.
Yes, ladies, you can now dress up as Slutty Ernie and Slutty Bert and even I have to admit that the costumes aren’t half bad.
I’m just not sure that parents would approve. Check out the rest of the Slutty Sesame Street costumes in the gallery below to see for yourself. Personally, my favorite happens to be the Big Bird costume. It’s pretty tame compared to the others and except for the footwear, it kind of looks pretty good.
Each costume retails for around $40 to $50(USD)from Yandy.
[via Geekologie]
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